Another lukewarm quest…
Honestly, for the first time I was sooo bored playing a patch. I was even tempted to skip all the dialogue (at one point I just tapped through Hiyuki and Lucille’s conversation and quickly read the whole thing at the end. That too because I didn’t want to miss out on something relavent).
Also, does it feel like quests have become us just walking/running and dialogue, there is really nothing more to it… I miss when we had more mechanics and mini games and ofcourse fights. I literally had to push myself to complete the last two quests.
The only thing worth mentioning this quest is Denia - last patch her characterization left me confused, because if they were setting her to a villain (or someone who is being used) they could have done a better job. Eg - cristoforo; or the whole arc with Lupa (With C pulling the strings) and even Carthetiya’s whole struggle (I was going to say the whole Augusta wanting to sacrifice herself arc but it really isn’t their best work. good but could have been better. at least I was emotionally invested in it and the story, though) Even, Nivora’s characterization was better. And she seems to be working for the Fractsidus. In retrospect it might be because they can’t keep pulling a nivora again and again. It loses its novelty. Let see where it goes, hopefully Kuro has better plans for future.
Also, about Hiyuki, not that she’s a bad character, but at this point I feel so disappointed with the story that I am not really excited for her. What made it worse was the really boring side quest where we help that blackshores girl out and get to know more about Hiyuki. God if not for the free astrites I wouldn’t have done it. I’m left THAT dissatisfied, essentially.
Personally, this whole story quest/ 3.0 peaked at Aemeath and Luuk’s chapters and things have been going downhill since (in part because of kuro’s money making schemes but more on that in a minute).
Kuro might as well, cut down on the amount of quests per chapter and give us quality with a good chunk of time per quest… honestly they could have cut down on sigrikas quest and made it a character story quest (really shitty way to introduce dark side of academia). things don’t feel cohesive anymore to me but hopefully things take a turn after the anniversary quest release (kuro really doesn’t have to keep releasing a new quest every patch. And rather focus on the anniversary thing 🤷♀️. I’d not be upset. Kuro has been so good otherwise, don’t know what happened here)
So here’s a little rant (also this goes without saying I am your average player not the best at fights, and there are so many times I rely on my key smashing skills to fight a boss 🤷♀️😂)-
It feels like Kuro is slowly more focused on making people just give them money irrespective of the quality of content. Don’t ask me how rare it is to pull characters you want. Every time I’m trying to pull a 5-star from their respective banners i am 100% going to get atleast one character from the normal Convene (that too after multiple pulls…) why are normal characters a part of the pool?! (Weirdly this same applies for weapons)…
We now have hyper specific teams (you can’t play a particular character without their specific support) and most of the times even a dedicated healer. Not to mention all these characters release back to back, sometimes even the same patch. Fun… 🤩
And it’s become increasingly difficult to build your echoes because you’re not going to get the crit rate/dmg etc. percentages to even play the character as an average player. Kuro’s solution - introduce something like a modifier, which again, is difficult to get without money.
And if that’s not enough, you can’t play characters now without their weapons… because again it’s become difficult to reach the percentages without them. Moreover, you need to pull a character multiple times to unlock their best damage (s3 even in some cases).
It’s so frustrating, I stopped playing Genshin for this reason and now this?!! Honestly, I could do with less characters and story quests each major chapter (1.0, 2.0, 3.0…) and more quality story.
Don’t get me started with how annoying it was when Luuk came out. He had so much potential. But Kuro decided to not give him a dedicated sub-dps (when that’s all they have been doing). And he has shitty crowd control. He then he comes out immediately after Aemeath (how many players are going to have astrites left after that?!) and immediately around the time of this release they subtly release info on the anniversary characters?! Worse part of the whole mess was clicking the wrong video on YouTube and ending up seeing gooners celebrating how much of a failure Luuk was and Kuro should learn a lesson🙄
It’s so rare to get a male character, even rare is that they are relavent to the plot and not just there in the background (Jiyan being the last one). They did jack shit with Brant. Even Qiyuan felt like a side note.
Finally, this a personal opinion. Anyone can correct me, comment etc as long as it’s not a personal attack.
